Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing the Best Plan
Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing the Best Plan
Chess Strategy Workbook teaches you to be observant and take your time to discover the clues in chess positions, introducing many of the strategies used by chess masters in a way that is fun and easy to understand.Learn how to use the different types of chess advantages (king safety, material, piece activity, and pawn structure) to correctly evaluate the position in order to select the best move. Basic strategies for the opening, middlegame, and endgame are covered in detail as well as pitfalls to avoid and how to think during the game.Two hundred problems with a comprehensive answer key are given at two skill levels: Basset Hound (novice to intermediate) and Chess Detective (intermediate to advanced).
- ASIN: 0976196220
- ISBN: 0976196220
- Brand: The House of Staunton
- Manufacturer: Chess Detective Press
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings: 60 Complete Games
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings: 60 Complete Games
Chess endings have an immediacy lacking in chess endgame or chess problems: endings are not theoretical or composed, but actual board positions, the point in every game when the superfluous falls away, leaving only the essential. José Raúl Capablanca (1888–1942) had no need for isolated artistic theory or compositions — he composed and created chess art as he played. All of his genius — intuitive, tactical, strategic, logical — all of his art shines clearest in his endings, as he himself was proud to declare, advising others to study them carefully. "In order to improve your game," he said, "you must study the endgame before anything else; for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame."The best way to follow Capablanca's advice is through this — the only book devoted to his great endings, 60 complete games emphasizing the grand finale but annotated throughout.Irving Chernev communicates in his notes the mystery and wonder as well as the delight in discovering again and again the original, fertile mind of chess's greatest born player. "Virtuoso," "exquisite," "profound," "inspired," "elegant," and "fiendish ingenuity" describe match and tournament games and endings against Alekhine, Steiner, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Lasker, Réti, and others, the best in the contemporary chess world. Capablanca's eleventh game in the 1901 Cuban championship (which he won, aged 12) "surpasses any accomplishment by such other prodigies as Morphy, Reshevsky, and Fischer." From age 12 through the last game in the book (nearly four decades later against Reshevsky at Nottingham, 1936), Capablanca fashions endgames in tense tournament atmosphere that seem like delicate, precise instruments dreamt at leisure.Here then is the essence of Capablanca, analyzed for the instruction of players and the pleasure of chess connoisseurs. Included are indexes of openings, themes in the endings, and o... [Read More]
- UPC: 800759242498
- ASIN: 0486242498
- ISBN: 0486242498
- Brand: The House of Staunton
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
This comprehensive guide, in dictionary form, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy is used in practice.
- ASIN: 1890085014
- ISBN: 1890085014
- Brand: The House of Staunton
- Manufacturer: Siles Pr
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
- UPC: 768821255497
- ASIN: 1579125549
- ISBN: 1579125549
- Brand: The House of Staunton
- Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
"The novice who plays through Logical Chess can learn an ocean of basic chess wisdom."—Leonard Barden, Engilsh chess master and broadcaster “Entertains . . . as it reinforces strategic lessons gleaned from chess titans. Illustrates effective middle-game plans.”—Library Journal Having learned the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this popular classic, the author explains 33 complete games, in detail, move by move, including the reason for each one. Playing through these games and explanations gives real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.
- ASIN: 0713484640
- ISBN: 0713484640
- Brand: US Chess Federation
- Manufacturer: Batsford
The Best Move
The Best Move
The Best Move is a collection of very hard chess problems based on actual grandmaster games. The reader is asked who has the advantage and why. Points are awarded not only for getting the answer right but for seeing deeply into the position. These problems are based primarily on the games of Grandmasters Hort and Grandmaster Jansa. These are not the typical “White to Play and Win” problems. Rather the reader is asked to decide who is better. These are very hard problems. Do not be surprised if you to not get any of them, or if you get them only by guessing.
- ASIN: 4871875903
- ISBN: 4871875903
- Brand: The House of Staunton
- Manufacturer: Ishi Press
Smyslov's Best Games: Volume 1: 1935-1957
Smyslov's Best Games: Volume 1: 1935-1957
The translation of Russian original. It contains the selection of 140 Smyslov's Best games from the period 1935 - 1957 fully annotated by former world's chess champion with many diagrams, tournament and Match Cross-Tables, Tournament and Match Results, Indexes of players and openings.
- ASIN: 8071894710
- ISBN: 8071894710
- Manufacturer: Publishing House Moravian Ches
My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937, 21st Century Edition
My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937, 21st Century Edition
In chess literature, there have only been a few chess books that have immediately – and permanently – established themselves as classics, and this is one of them. The original English edition, published 75 years ago, used English descriptive notation, contained only one photograph, no crosstables and was in two volumes. This new 21st-century edition, presented with modern algebraic notation, has • combined both books into a single volume• added more than three dozen archival photographs• crosstables• Alekhine’s complete match and tournament records• a Foreword by Russian grandmaster Igor Zaitsev• with many more diagrams• a comprehensive computer-assisted analytical supplement is also available for free downloadWhether you feel as if you are revisiting an old friend, or being introduced to this splendid game collection for the first time, you will marvel at how Alekhine’s games and works remain extraordinarily consonant with the modern approach.
- ASIN: 193649065X
- ISBN: 193649065X
- Brand: The House of Staunton
- Manufacturer: Russell Enterprises, Inc.
Tactics Time!: 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players
Tactics Time!: 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players
Everyone knows that the way to improve at chess is to solve tactics puzzles. But why do tactics books make amateurs study grandmaster or master games? How useful is it to analyze games that are unreal for everyday chess players?In the real world of beginning and casual players openings are dubious, positions are messy, material is uneven, and cheap traps and oversights are occurring constantly. Most amateur games are won by rather primitive means, compared to the cool and fancy moves that masters need in order to gain victory.This book only takes positions from amateur games and puts them out there, warts and all. Tim Brennan and Andrea Carson have assembled thousands of games by everyday players, and selected the most instructive tactical examples. If you have limited time and energy to devote to chess, you want to study positions that are happening in games you yourself might have played!
- ASIN: 9056914383
- ISBN: 9789056914387
- Brand: The House of Staunton
- Manufacturer: New In Chess
Comprehensive Chess Course, Vol. 2: From Beginner to Tournament Player in 12 Lessons
Comprehensive Chess Course, Vol. 2: From Beginner to Tournament Player in 12 Lessons
Thirty years ago, Roman Pelts was my chess teacher in Odessa, Russia. Later he assembled all knowledge essential for becoming a stronger player in this Comprehensive Chess Course. The techniques used in the Course proved to be a success for me as well as for generations of chessplayers in Russia and later in Canada and the United States. Now, the Course can help you learn chess the correct way to realize your chess potential fully. - Grandmaster Lev Alburt, three-time U.S. Champion
- ASIN: 1889323012
- ISBN: 1889323012
- Brand: Chess Information and Research Center
- Manufacturer: Chess Information and Research Center